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　　On June 30, 2009, a Yemenia airplane from Paris to Comoros, Africa, crashed into the Indian Ocean．There were 153 people on the plane, including some French officials．Though people have been searching since the plane went down, the result looked unpleasant, for most of the passengers might be in bad luck．

　　But a 13-year-old girl called Bahia Bakari was discovered in the water, where she had been staying afloat(漂浮的)by holding a piece of wreckage(残骸)from the plane tightly for over 13 hours．

　　When they found her, the girl was too weak to catch he lifebuoy(救生圈)thrown to her, instead, a Comoran police officer, said Abdilai, jumped into the water to pull the child onto the boat．

　　Bahia Bakari was injured, especially her collarbone(锁骨)．her father was pleased to see his daughter although his wife had gone away in this tragedy．He said that his daughter could hardly swim．It was really a miracle for her to escape in this way．In her daddy’s warm arms, the girl could soon remember what she had experienced．“I was thrown out of the plane and then I saw the plane fall into the water．Next I found myself in the water．I couldn’t swim very well and I caught something but I didn’t know what is was,” said the girl．

　　“She is really a lucky young girl,” said Alain Joyandet, France’s minister for International Cooperation．

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　　Earlier this month, a solar-powered(太阳能动力的)plane took off to the sky for the first time．It had passed an important test on the way to travel around the world．

　　The plane took off from an airport in Switzerland(瑞士)at 45km an hour．It slowly rose above the fields and into the sky．

　　“There has never been an airplane of that kind that could fly-never an airplane so big, se light, using so little energy,”said Bertrand Piccard, a leader of the project．

　　During the 90-minute flight, the plane did several turns．It climbed nearly 1.6km above the countryside．

　　Engineers plan to test a night flight before July．Then they will use the results of the tests to build a second plane．They plan to travel around the world in that plane in 2012．

　　“We want to fly it day and night with no fuel,”Piccard said．

　　Piceard and the pilot Andre Borschberg will take the plane around the world．They will make a few stops to change places and rest after a long time in the air－and to show off(展示)their plane．The plane flies at 70 kph on average．That is faster than a bike and slower than a car．The pilots will keep the plane in the air for up to five days at a time．